We are Julian, Al and Andy, long-toothed listeners still frantic for new sounds even after all these years/wives/babies. The blog is Lend Me Your Ears.

Where are you based?

Balmy Bath and Bristol (and rather more balmy Barcelona, where original co-author Andy has taken a leave of absence to enter the prog vortex).

Describe your blog in a sentence.

LMYE appreciates less obvious music.

How long has your blog been going?

More than five years (so long that we can still remember a pre-SoundCloud time when it was all MP3s round here, lad).

What do you write about?

Though we listen more widely (taking in jazz, dub, post-punk, post-rock), we mostly cover drone, hyper-ambient and electro-acoustic improvisation, as well as the experimental end of techno – music that is about the interplay of colour, tone and texture even more than music usually is. Oh, and no vocals almost ever (and beats, rarely, except when DJ Al gets down).

Why should people visit your blog?

We're shining a little light on the largely uncelebrated renaissance that instrumental music has been going through for years now. This stuff is far from pure "classical" (a corpse in a penguin suit) and is certainly not traditional "ambient" (an undemanding bleepscape). It is "hyper" in the strict sense of being beyond these other genres – and really, really worth a listen. Profoundly worth it, in fact.

Also, so far as I know, ours is the only blog that Rick Wakeman stomps past daily. The spectacle of a once becloaked pomp-rock legend toting a Morrisons plastic bag is a big, if unquantifiable, influence on LMYE.

What's your top song right now?

"Songs" aren't quite the droneosphere's currency, but Marconi's Shipwreck (listen here) is a gentler new take on Erstlaub's wind-lashed angst. For something more song-like, savour Oren Ambarchi's moving Salt.

In the UK: the Liminal; and in the US: Anti-Gravity Bunny. Scott Liminal was the first blogger ever to link to LMYE and remains the most gifted writer/listener in our orbit. I always want to hear whatever Andrew, Matt and Rich have on rotation as well. Justin AGB (get well soon!) is a lovely, sweary enthusiast and far quicker to the punch than LMYE will ever be.